The brother of the leader of the Afghan Taliban was among at least four people killed in a bomb blast at a mosque in Pakistan on Friday, two Taliban sources told Reuters, an attack that could affect efforts to end the Afghan war. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast which took place as the Taliban and the United States are in the final stages of talks on an agreement that would see America withdraw its troops from neighboring Afghanistan. Police said more than 20 people ...

A female suicide bomber killed six people after blowing herself up in western Chad early Wednesday, a senior army officer said, in an attack attributed to Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists.“Six people died, including a soldier,” in the attack in Kaiga-Kindjiria district, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.A number of people were also injured, the officer said, without giving figures.A provincial security official said a woman wearing an explosives-laden belt ...

Thai authorities recovered an unexploded firebomb at a market in central Bangkok on Wednesday in what they said was a device left over from coordinated attacks last week that wounded four people. Six small bombs and six fire-bombs went off in the Thai capital last Friday as the city hosted a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers that was also attended by top diplomats from the United States, China, and other world powers. Thai police said the newly discovered ...

An Afghan official says a bomb has gone off near a police checkpoint in the capital of Kabul, killing at least two policemen. Nasrat Rahimi, an Interior Ministry spokesman, says Thursday’s explosion also wounded three policemen. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but both the Taliban and the ISIS are active in Kabul and regularly target government forces, officials and civilians in the Afghan capital. Meanwhile in western Herat province, Shandand district chief ...

Dozens of passengers, mainly women and children, were killed in western Afghanistan early Wednesday when the bus they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb, officials said. “A passenger bus travelling on the Kandahar-Herat highway hit a Taliban roadside bomb. So far at least 28 killed, 10 wounded,” Muhibullah Muhib, the spokesman for Farah province, had said earlier. All were civilians, mostly women and children, he said. Farooq Barakzai, a spokesman for Farah’s governor, ...

An explosion on Friday outside an entrance to Kabul University in the Afghan capital killed at least seven people and injured 27 others, officials said. Health ministry spokesman Wahid Mayar said there were students among the 27 injured taken to hospital after the blast, which a student at the university campus said took place while a number of students waited to appear for an exam. Afghan security forces are facing almost daily attacks by Taliban militants, despite reported progress in efforts ...

Taliban fighters detonated a car bomb at a gate of police headquarters in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday, killing at least 12 and wounding 60 others, police and medical officials and the Taliban said. After the blast, militant gunman opened fire from nearby positions and members of the security forces were battling them, said Tadeen Khan, the southern city's chief of police. The attackers targeted the police force's counter-narcotics wing, Khan said. Police cordoned off the area as ...

A Lufthansa plane bound for Frankfurt was evacuated at Belgrade airport on Thursday after police received a call saying a bomb was on board, the Serbian interior ministry said. The Serbian interior ministry later confirmed that the bomb threat was fake after checks on board the plane. Serbian state TV said 130 passengers and five crew members have been evacuated after boarding the 6.15 a.m. (0415 GMT) LH 1411 flight, and the plane was taken off the runway. Special police units were deployed to ...

At least two people were killed by a suicide bombing in North Sinai on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there, security and medical sources said. The victims of the bombing were a civilian and a member of the security forces, the sources said. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. An Egyptian military spokesman said in a statement that security forces killed the bomber before he reached a checkpoint, which was his intended target. The spokesman confirmed that a ...

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb hit a funeral of former senior military commander in the east Libyan city of Benghazi, medical and military sources said. The funeral at Benghazi’s Huwari cemetery was for Khalifa Mismari, the assistant commander of Libya’s special forces under former leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was toppled in 2011, the military source said. A Reuters witness saw two burned out cars at the scene of the blast. According to the military ...